Frus­tra­tion spilled in­to the streets yes­ter­day as res­i­dents of Kan­hai Road North, Bar­rack­pore, de­mand­ed ur­gent re­pairs to a road they said had been ne­glect­ed for decades.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Prime Min­is­ter Gas­ton Browne has thrown his sup­port be­hind Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s tough stance on vi­o­lent and dis­rup­tive stu­dents, sug­gest­ing at­ten­tion should in­stead be placed on par­ents who are “rais­ing crim­i­nals” in their homes.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says the Gov­ern­ment is in dis­cus­sions with the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) on an in­te­grat­ed health ser­vices pro­gramme that could see the wide­spread digi­ti­sa­tion of pa­tient health records.

U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio gave new clar­i­ty Wednes­day on the U.S. ap­proach to­ward com­bat­ing drug traf­fick­ing in Latin Amer­i­can wa­ters, say­ing the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion is now fo­cused on work­ing with al­lied coun­tries and align­ing with their laws but in­sist­ing that the mil­i­tary will “still blow up ships if need be.”

Eigh­teen for­eign na­tion­als were in­ter­cept­ed by po­lice dur­ing a coastal se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tion in Ch­aguara­mas ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing.

The Do­mini­ca gov­ern­ment con­firmed on Wednes­day that five Colom­bian na­tion­als de­port­ed by the Unit­ed States un­der the third coun­try na­tion­als pro­gramme have since re­turned to their coun­try.

Three of­fi­cers were pro­mot­ed to As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and five to Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice at a cer­e­mo­ny at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing on Wednes­day.

Gov­ern­ment is ac­tive­ly pur­su­ing parental re­spon­si­bil­i­ty leg­is­la­tion as it throws its sup­port be­hind Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s tough stance on school vi­o­lence and stu­dent in­dis­ci­pline.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Wednes­day that oil prices that have surged be­cause of the Iran war like­ly won’t come down un­til af­ter U.S. midterm elec­tions.

Two armed men robbed a 24-hour phar­ma­cy in Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas, ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing, af­ter ty­ing up two work­ers.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her Gov­ern­ment will con­tin­ue sup­port­ing mea­sures aimed at mak­ing the jus­tice sys­tem faster, more ef­fi­cient and more ac­ces­si­ble to cit­i­zens.

Pre­mier Restau­rants CEO Vish­nu Ma­haraj has de­fend­ed the pric­ing at the new­ly opened Ap­ple­bee’s and IHOP restau­rants at Grand Bazaar, say­ing the prices are af­ford­able de­spite so­cial me­dia posts sug­gest­ing oth­er­wise.